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Old Home Day 2009 - 230 year anniversity celebration of Barkhamsted's Incorporation. Old Home Day is the traditional celebration of Barkhamsted's birthday and we celebrated in style this September 13th. This is a tradition that goes back to the original Old Home Day held in 1879 which marked...

Old Home Day 2009 - 230 year anniversity celebration of Barkhamsted's Incorporation. Old Home Day is the traditional celebration of Barkhamsted's birthday and we celebrated in style this September 13th. This is a tradition that goes back to the original Old Home Day held in 1879 which marked...

After the July 19, 2008 program on CCC camps in Connecticut, we toured the site of one of those CCC camps: Camp White in Barkhamsted. Located in American Legion State Forest (just north of the Austin Hawes campground), Camp White was operating from late 1933 to early 1942. Not much evidence of the buildings...

After the July 19, 2008 program on CCC camps in Connecticut, we toured the site of one of those CCC camps: Camp White in Barkhamsted. Located in American Legion State Forest (just north of the Austin Hawes campground), Camp White was operating from late 1933 to early 1942. Not much evidence of the buildings...

Reservoir Tour Held September 15, 2007 For several years the Historical Society has done a tour of Barkhamsted Center, the Hollow and Saville Dam. This has been so popular that we again offered it on September 15, 2007. It was always a favorite event of Walt Landgraf's and although we could not match...